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Work and Education 














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ORGANIZATION 1919 




STATE TRADE SCHOOL 




South Manchester, Connecticut 




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JAMBS C. TUCKER 


Director 




MISS RUTH F. WADDELL 


Clerk 




INSTRUCTORS 






JOHN C. DINWOODIE 


Machine Department 




WILLIAM J. HANNA 


Machine Department 




ROWLAND H. ROYCE 


Drafting Department 




ISAAC B. NELSON 


Carpentry Department 




ALEXANDER A. WARREN 


Electric Department 




ALBERT A. FOY 


Textile Department 




MRS. JENNIE A. BIDWELL 


Textile Department 




MISS ALICE HAUSCHULZ 


Textile Department 




HUBERT A. CABLE 


Mathematics Department 












STATE TRADE 
EDUCATION SHOP 



1918 




South Manchester 
Connecticut 



1919 



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FOREWORD 



THE State of Connecticut offers every opportunity to 
the boy and girl to acquire a classical education. But 
we should not grind them all between the upper and nether 
mill stones of one system of education, expecting the pro- 
duct to be uniform or the education suitable to the needs of 
all individuals alike regardless of inclination, adaptability or 
environment. 

Trade Education is a practical education, combining 
theory and work, thus training the Mind, the Hand and the 
Eye, with technical correctness along a specific line, chosen 
or found to be the best suited to the individual. 

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TRADE EDUCATION OF CONNECTICUT 



UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 



THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 

Office: Room 42, Capitol, Hartford 



MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, Governor - 

CLIFFORD B. WILSON, Lieutenant Governor 
CHARLES F. SMITH 
HOWELL CHENEY 
EDWARD ROBBINS 

DR. JOHN G. STANTON 
SCHUYLER MERRITT 



Southington 
Bridgeport 
New Britain 
South Manchester 

New Haven 
New London 

Stamford 



CHARLES D. HINE, Secretary 

HENRY C MORRISON, Assistant Secretary 

F. J TRINDER, State Director of Industrial Education 



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"It has become indisputably clear to me how much more truly a 
person is moulded thru that which he does than what he hears." 



Pestalozzi 



What is a Trade School? 



A school where boys 14 years of age or over may become apprenticed to a trade without the 
formality of an indenture. 

A school whose aim and object is to teach apprentices the fundamentals and 
progressive art of any chosen trade in a thorough and practical manner, with ability 
to execute work common to a trade with accuracy and in keeping with commercial 
standards. 

A school where the courses of trade instruction include those of Arith- 
metic, Physics, Mechanics and Drafting in such proportion to trade 
instruction hours as will define to the student's mind the law of forces 
and authority for work methods employed in the trade. 

A school whose method of instruction has given to its 
graduates the right to offer their labor as that of trained 
mechanics. 

A school which trains boys to be skilled and 
scientific workmen. 



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STATE TRADE 

EDUCATION 

SHOP 



1151 Main Street 
South Manchester 
Connecticut 



JAMES C. TUCKER 
Director 




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The State Trade Education Shop 

The State Trade Education Shop of South Manchester is located in a modern fireproof 
building, well ventilated and provided with ideal lighting. The students are surrounded with 
exceptionally hygienic working conditions. 

The Trades Taught are as follows: 

Machine Work, including Tool Making Training Period 4800 hours 

Drafting, Mechanical and Architectural Training Period 4800 hours 

Carpentry and Cabinet Making Training Period 4800 hours 

Electrical Work Training Period 4800 hours 

Textile Manufacturing J open to both ) Training Period 2400 hours 

Technical Clerical Textile { boys and girls \ Training Period 2400 hours 

Twenty-five per cent, of the training period is given to drafting and academic studies relat- 
ing to the particular trade. 

These trades are taught both on a full time basis and on a half time or cooperative plan 
with the local high school. (See page 25) 

The work given to the student is entirely of a practical nature, the product being the same 
as he might be called upon to produce were he employed at his chosen trade. 

TUITION FREE — ENTER ANY TIME 



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A GROUP OF YOUNG TRADESMEN 

and 

THEIR INSTRUCTORS 



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The Worth of a Trade Training 

Our Trade School graduates have been able to increase 
their earning power by one to three or four dollars a day due 
to their training. 

What does an Increase of at least 
a Dollar a Day Mean ? 

$1.00 (increase for one day) 300 (working days in one 
year) = $300.00. This continued for 30 years amounts to 
$9000.00 which may fairly represent the minimum worth of a 
TRADE TRAINING in our TRADE SCHOOL. 

It requires about 4800 hours to complete a course in the 
Connecticut State Trade Education Shops. 

$9000.00 -- 4800 = $1.87^ per hour. 

Pretty Good Pay While Learning 

The average increase in earning power is much more than 
the above conservative figures indicate, and grows rapidly with 
experience and maturity. The value of improved industrial 
efficiency, and increased material worth and national power is 
immeasurable. 

Above all, self confidence, self respect, reliability and honor 
are priceless rewards to the skilled workman. 



A Graduate Equipped For Service 



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MACHINE 
DEPARTMENT 



DEVELOPING 

SKILLED 

MECHANICS 




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Machine Work 



Sps) HIS course trains boys to be machinists and tool makers. The machine shop pro- 
\S duces standard power machines and small tools, the manufacture of which requires 
ft the use of lathe, shaper, planer, milling machines, universal grinder, drill presses, jigs 
and fixtures. Layout work and the making of jigs, fixtures and tools is an import- 
ant part of the student's training. Each apprentice is taught to forge lathe, shaper, and planer 
tools, and to harden and temper same. 

Machine shop graduates are also fitted to accept positions in factories as mechanical drafts- 
men, their knowledge of mathematics, free hand and mechanical drawing and the making of blue 
prints, together with their machine shop training as a basis, making them particularly valuable 
men. 




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DRAFTING 
DEPARTMENT 



'DOING THE 
BRAIN WORK' 




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Drafting 



HIS course trains boys to be mechanical or architectural draftsmen. In the drafting 
department instruction is given in the planning of work for all departments. By 
rapid stages, the boys progress thru the elements of geometrical and mechanical 
drawing, free hand sketches and projections to the production of intelligent working 
drawings. They are taught tracing, blue-printing and Van Dyke work; making assembly draw- 
ings from detail sketches; layout of spur and bevel gears, worm and worm wheels with calcula- 
tions for same, plate and cylindrical cams, straight and quarter turn belt drive and other mechani- 
cal movements; design of jigs, fixtures, blanking dies, cutter heads, other small tools, power 
machines; also suitability, cost and availability of materials. 

Drawing applied to the various other trades, as in Carpentry, Electricity and Textile Manu- 
facturing, follows the same general scheme, but with special adaptation for the trade desired. 

All regular drafting apprentices must work a sufficient length of time in the shop to acquire 
a knowledge of design and manufacturing processes. 



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CARPENTRY 
DEPARTMENT 



PREPARING 
INSIDE FINISH 
FOR HOUSE No. 2 




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Carpentry 



ARP ENTRY includes practical work in house planning and building. Boys are 

trained in house framing, window and door framing, outside and inside finish, stair 

building, and mill work, also in concrete form work and reinforced concrete con- 

;===^ struction. Particular attention is given to the technical and mathematical side of 



house construction as well as to skill in workmanship. Compiling specifications and estimating 
are made an important feature in this course. A sufficient amount of cabinet making is given 
to train the boy in fine finish work. 

We emphasize the value of a close personal contact of student and instructor in this course 
as well as in all trade instruction. 



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ELECTRICAL 
DEPARTMENT 



'TUNING UP" 

THE 

POWER PLANT 




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Electrical Course 



THE ELECTRICAL COURSE is particularly attractive to boys of high school grade or 
equivalent, and includes instruction and practice in the following: 

Testing and Maintenance of Direct and Alternating Current Motors and Generators, Meters 
and Instruments, and of Transformers and Storage Batteries. 

Operation, care and testing of gas engines, including power consumption and efficiency tests. 

Interior wiring in houses, stores and factories. 

Installation, care and operation of electrical motors, generators, and switchboards. 

Study of distribution systems. 

Locating and repairing defects in electrical equipment. 

Theory and mathematics of Direct and Alternating Current electricity. 

The department is provided with complete power equipment, electrical machinery and auxil- 
iary apparatus. 



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TEXTILE 
DEPARTMENT 



WEAVING FINE 
SILK FABRICS 




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Textile Manufacturing Course 



THIS department is finely equipped with all the necessary machinery for the preparation 
of raw silk, to the weaving of broad goods and narrow fabrics. The course includes instruction 
and practice in the following: 

Winding and doubling, twisting and reeling of raw silk, 

organzine, tram, spun silk and cotton. 
Warping and quilling, for broad goods and narrow 

fabrics. 
Elementary designing and weaving. 

Hand twisting with harness drafts, and harness chain 

building. 
Designing and cloth analysis. 
Textile mathematics, drawing, study of materials and 

testing;. 




Silk Worms on Mulberry Trees 



This course is not intended to make mere machine operators, but to BUILD UP A BROAD 
FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE of the THEORY and PRACTICE in textile manufac- 
turing, preparing the student for rapid advancement to well paid positions of higher responsibility 
and usefulness. 



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MATHEMATICS 
DEPARTMENT 



"ON THE 
JOB" 



Getting Lines and 
Levels on 
House No. 2 




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Shop Mathematics 



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|N THIS department Shop Mathematics is dealt with as a POWER supported by 
a column of practical and efficient instruction and positively geared back to the work 
, for the purpose of turning out an accurate product. The related problems involving 
9UJiM> Arithmetic and such parts of Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry as are met with 
in the shops and drawing room, are assembled and solved under the direction of a trained and com- 
petent instructor, who gives his entire time to the work in conjunction with the shop instructors. 

The work begins in the shop on the job worked upon, thus supplying the mind with the cor- 
rect mental image. By this means, the boy is taught to think in the terms of the thing he is 
calculating, and the problem takes on the "punch" that holds his interest. 

The use of Slide Rule, Transit, Comptometer and other calculating devices is taught by act- 
ual practice. 

All notes and solutions are carefully compiled by the student and bound in a convenient 
notebook. 



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ATHLETICS 

AND 

RECREATION 



WARMING 
UP" 




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BASKETBALL 

SQUAD 

1917 - 1918 




WINNERS OF 
16 out of 20 
GAMES 



Athletics and Recreation 

A modern gymnasium with swimming pool and shower baths is at the disposal of the Trade 
School members for a definite amount of supervised recreation weekly. 

Floor work for all, and basket-ball for organized teams during cold weather; baseball, track 
events and other outdoor sports during warm weather, are promoted by a well organized Athletic 
Association. 



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FATHER . 
AND SON 



TRAINED 

OR UNTRAINED? 



The Untrained 
Seeks the Job 
THE JOB 
Seeks the Trained 




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Co-operative Courses 




^CO-OPERATIVE COURSE is an arrangement whereby a student may attend a part of the 
time in high school, taking during the four years English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, 
United States History and Civics, and such other subjects as the individual student may be 
able to carry. The remainder of the time is spent at the trade school. Those electing the 
co-operative courses with the local high school spend the morning hours at the high school and the after- 
noon hours and Saturday mornings in the Trade School Shops. They are also required to do forty-four 
hours of shop work per week for at least seven weeks during the summer vacation. An equivalent 
arrangement can be made with other high schools. 

A pupil who finishes a co-operative course with satisfactory record will be" given a high school diploma 
in addition to his regular trade diploma. 

All trades taught may be taken on the co-operative plan. 

The Technical Clerical Textile course is conducted on the co-operative plan. It is designed for those 
who wish to become familiar with the theory, operation, costs and accounting connected with the manufac- 
turing of textiles. It is open to high school students. The shop work and mechanical drawing of the co- 
operative high school trade school course will be replaced by a study of the following subjects under practical 
mill-trained instructors: Study of materials, textile designing, cloth analysis, free-hand drawing, cost account- 
ing, time study, scheduling, routing, time-keeping. The time devoted to machine work will be given to 
perfecting a theoretical knowledge of the operation, rather than to skill in operating the machine. 

SUMMER COURSES 

Boys and girls 12 years of age or over may be admitted to all the trades during the summer vacation 
providing there is room. Applications for summer work should be made early. 



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Diploma 

Trade schools issue diplo- 
mas to students who complete 
the course in a satisfactory 
manner. Diplomas are signed 
by the Governor, Secretary of 
State Board of Education, 
State Director of Industrial 
Education and the Director 
of the Local Trade School. 









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Apprentice 



Certificate 



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General Information 



G^QDCpj; HE South Manchester State Trade Education Shop is one of several such institutions 
Sg§} maintained by the State of Connecticut with the co-operation of the district school 
fo systems. TRADE INSTRUCTION IS FREE to boys and girls residing in the 
0)^i==^31] State, who are 14 years of age or over and can read and write and manipulate com- 
mon and decimal fractions. Trade Schools operate 52 weeks each year, 51. days each week less 
national holidays. Each student is also allowed 2 weeks vacation when requested. 

A report covering the work and deportment of the student is sent to the parents or guardian 
each month. We urge the parents to co-operate with the school in a definite manner to insure 
against loss of time by the student. 

EVENING CLASSES in all the trades taught in the day classes, commencing October 1st, 
and closing May 1st. The aim of evening instruction is to promote self improvement among men 
in their particular trade employment. No student is admitted under 16 years of age. 

For more detailed information correspond, or, what is better still, visit the trade school, spend 
as much time as you can inspecting the work, go into the matter thoroughly, talk with the stu- 
dents or graduates and see what a real trade education means in this state. 

JAMES C. TUCKER, Director. 



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